malaise
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
malaise
- A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
- Synonyms: unease, doldrums, ill at ease
- An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.
- Synonyms: melancholy, weltschmerz, angst
- 2003, Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War:
- Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as their expensive furnishings, but worst of all, they had war instead of peace" (2.65.2).
- Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.
- French: malaise
- German: Unbehagen, Unwohlsein
- Italian: malessere
- Portuguese: mal-estar
- Russian: недомога́ние
- Spanish: malestar
- Russian: дискомфо́рт
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